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faced minimal requirements … Report of the Senate Select Committee on Abortion Clinic Regulation, Senate, State of Florida, March 5, 1990, pages 6-8.
the safest surgical procedure in the country … Hearings, House Health Care Committee, 9/14/89 (audiotape). The speaker was Patte Martin.
Regulation is a euphemism … Hearings, House Health Care Committee, 9/13/89 (audiotape). The other quotations from this hearing can also be found here.
Graber told a reporter … Florida Today, 8/6/89.
new areas of physician liability … Ben Graber, M.D., letter to “Dear Colleagues,” 9/16/89, page 1.
Other legislators resisted … Tampa Tribune, 9/22/89, page 1B; Palm Beach Post, 9/23/89; ACLU of Florida, “Facts of Abortion Safety Laws Need Examination” (press release), 9/22/89, page 2.
is keeping government out of your private life … Florida Times-Union, 7/9/89, page A1.
A few years earlier … Tampa Tribune, 9/17/89, page 6B.
failing to crack down on doctors’ offices … Florida Times-Union, 9/29/89, page B1.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled … In Re: T.W., A Minor, 551 So.2d 1186 (Fla. 1989).
Coler’s report … HRS press release, 10/5/89, pages 1-5.
this special session will be … Gainesville Sun, 10/10/89, page 1A.
This session is no longer … ibid.
Government, stay out of our private lives … Abortion Report, 10/11/89, item 81.
There will always be a choice … Tallahassee Democrat, 10/10/89, page 5A.
appeared before the Florida House Health Care Committee … Hearings, House Health Care Committee, 10/10/89 (audiotape).
You’re telling me … ibid.
ruled out regulations … This account of Malchon’s deliberations is based on interviews; St. Petersburg Times, 10/13/89, page 1A; Miami Herald, 10/11/89, page 8A; Tallahassee Democrat, 10/10/89, page 6A; and Tallahassee Democrat, 10/11/89, page 1A.
We have to avoid setting a precedent … Tallahassee Democrat, 10/11/89, page 1A.
testified before the House Health Care Committee … Hearings, House Health Care Committee, 10/11/89 (audiotape).
presenting more bad news … Hearings, Senate Health Care Committee, 10/11/89 (audiotape).
National television broadcasts … Abortion Report, 10/12/89, item 81.
a good chuckle … Roberta Fox, “Wrap on the 1989 Special Session on Choice” (memo to Coalition for Choice), 10/17/89, page 2.
Ha ha ha … Tallahassee Democrat, 10/12/89, page 1A.
She had tried to dissuade Martinez … Tallahassee Democrat, 7/13/89, page 1A.
remembered several girls who had disappeared … ibid.
to determine the numbers … Staff of the Senate Select Committee on Abortion Clinic Regulations, Licensed Health Care Professionals in Florida Abortion Clinics, March 1990, Appendices A-1 and B-1. For the committee’s summary of its work, see Report of the Senate Select Committee on Abortion Clinic Regulation, Senate, State of Florida, March 5, 1990.
kept absolutely confidential … ibid.
explained the providers’ fears … Hearings, Senate Select Committee on Abortion Clinic Regulation, 12/5/89 (audiotape).
wrote in an op-ed … Florida Today, 1/11/90.
Planned Parenthood and the Florida Nurses Association … Tallahassee Democrat, 10/8/89, page 9A.
the committee released his report … Report of the Senate Select Committee on Abortion Clinic Regulation, p. 6.
twice passed muster … Hearings, Senate Select Committee on Abortion Clinic Regulation, 12/5/89 (audiotape).
dismissed the safety inquiry as a front for pro-lifers … Hearings, Senate Select Committee on Abortion Clinic Regulation, 3/5/90 (audiotape).
seemed harmless … The account of pro-choice groups’ deliberations and disagreements over the Grizzle bill is based on interviews; Tallahassee Democrat, 5/3/90, page 5B, St. Petersburg Times, 5/3/90, page 5B; and Choice Whispers (Voice for Choice newsletter), 5/4/90, pages 1-2.
Business and Professional Women concurred … Mary Giddens, president, Florida Federation of Business & Professional Women’s Clubs., Inc., letter to Sen. Jack Gordon, 5/9/90.
met for lunch … The account of the lunch is based on interviews and Rep. Elaine Gordon, letter to Ms. Donna Burnell, 5/18/90, page 1.
very slim … Tallahassee Democrat, 5/15/90, page 4B.
To tamper with … Hearings, Senate Health Care Committee, 5/2/90 (audiotape).
Pardue fired back … Choice Whispers (Voice for Choice newsletter), 5/4/90, page 2.
Once you compromise … Tallahassee Democrat, 5/16/90, page 4B.
I just think … Gordon and Grizzle were quoted in Tampa Tribune, 6/1/90, page 6B.
not presented one shred … Tallahassee Democrat, 7/20/90, page 1C.
